Hi Dennis, this post made me smile. how command.com is documented vs how it works indeed. I am not sure what edition of freedos is being run, have written to ask. Thanks for your wisdom, Karen
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Karen Lewellen > <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: >> Does freedos have its own long file name utility? > > Yes. It's a loadable driver. > >> If so, is it close enough to ms dos to be run? > > It seems to work here. > >> Just curious, the person I know seeking it says they are running freedos, >> but they are using the old ms dos 7.1 lfn command. >> Made little sense to me, unless there is no specific freedos utility for >> it? > > There is a FreeDOS LFN utility, but your friend may be unaware of it, > may simply prefer to use the MS-DOS driver, or the FreeDOS driver may > have subtle incompatibilities with the MS-DOS driver that bites your > friend but does not bite others. > > FreeDOS is entirely written by third party users with no MS-DOS code > to refer to, who had to reverse engineer what DOS did and try to > create software that did the same thing, Even if it works as MS-DOS > is *documented* to work, that may not be correct. Some time back, > someone was asking 4DOS author Rex Conn for a change to make it more > compatible with COMMAND.COM, and he asked "Do you want it to work the > way COMMAND.COM is *documented* to work, or the way it actually *does* > work?" > > The significant thing is that your friend can run FreeDOS and *get* > LFN support using MS driver. This means FreeDOS pretty much got > things right, as it tries to run anything real MS-DOS would. > >> thanks, >> Karen > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
